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Anonymous Marking

Learn how to set up and manage anonymous marking in Cadmus assessments

Anonymous marking allows teachers to provide feedback on submissions without seeing student names in the Cadmus class list or your chosen marking tool (Turnitin Feedback Studio or Canvas Speedgrader).

In this article, we will cover:

  1. Turning on anonymous marking
  2. Accessing anonymous submissions
  3. Revealing student names in the Marking tab

Turning on anonymous marking

While editing the assessment instructions, you can turn on anonymous marking from the Requirements page. Be sure to decide on your marking preferences before releasing the assessment, as this setting cannot be changed once students have made submissions.

Follow these instructions to set up anonymous marking:

When using Anonymous Marking in Cadmus with Turnitin Feedback Studio for grading, it’s important to be aware of how the feedback release date affects anonymity.

Once the feedback release date has passed, Turnitin will automatically lift student anonymity and reveal their names in Similarity Reports. At this point, the system treats the marking period as complete. This behaviour is controlled by Turnitin and cannot be reversed from within Cadmus. Anonymous Marking cannot be re-enabled after the release date has been reached.

 

Tip: to ensure anonymity is maintained throughout the marking process, please set the feedback release date to a time after all marking has been finalised.

Accessing anonymous submissions 

When you are ready to mark, navigate to the Marking page. From here, click Mark to be taken to the submission.

Important! If you are using Canvas Speedgrader + anonymous marking, please ensure that your Canvas settings are set to Show All Sections. 

 

Revealing student names

When anonymous marking is turned on, your class list will show anonymised names in the Drafts and Marking pages. To de-anonymise, please follow the steps outlined below.

  1. Navigate to the class list on the Marking page.
  2. Select the student using the checkbox next to the student’s "name" (e.g. Student 7, Student 18, etc). To apply the changes to the entire cohort, tick the checkbox located at the top-left corner of the class list.

  3. Click Reveal names.
  4. Click Reveal all to confirm.
    Revealing student names will be recorded in the Cadmus system. Please ensure that you have a valid reason to reveal student names.

Note:

Names will always be shown in the Progress tab, making it easy to track student progress and manage extensions.